Research Catalog

Title

Inheritance of loss : China, Japan, and the political economy of redemption after empire / Yukiko Koga.

Author

Koga, Yukiko, 1969-

Publication

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today's globalized economy? With Inheritance of Loss, Yukiko Koga approaches these questions through the unique lens of inheritance, focusing on Northeast China, the former site of the Japanese Puppet State Manchukuo, where municipal governments now court Japanese as investors and tourists. As China transitions to a market-oriented society, this region is restoring long-neglected colonial-era structures to boost tourism and inviting former colonial industries to create special economic zones, while unexpectedly unearthing chemical weapons abandoned by the Japanese Imperial Army at the end of World War II. Inheritance of Loss ethnographically chronicles these sites of colonial inheritance tourist destinations, corporate zones, and mustard gas exposure sites to illustrate deeply entangled attempts by ordinary Chinese and Japanese to reckon with their shared yet contested pasts. In her explorations of everyday life and economy, Koga directs us to see how structures of violence and injustice that occurred after the demise of the Japanese Empire compound the losses that later generations must account for, and inevitably inherit.

Series Statement

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Uniform Title

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Subjects

• Japan > Relations > China > Manchuria
• Postcolonialism > Economic aspects > China > Manchuria
• Manchuria (China) > Relations > Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index.

Contents

Introduction: colonial inheritance and the topography of after empire -- Inheritance and betrayal: historical preservation and colonial nostalgia in Harbin -- Memory, postmemory, inheritance: postimperial topography of guilt in Changchun -- The political economy of redemption: middle-class dreams in the Dalian -- Special economic zone -- Industrious anxiety: labor and landscapes of modernity in Dalian -- Epilogue: deferred reckoning and the double inheritance.

Call Number

JFE 17-1462

ISBN

• 9780226411941 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 022641194X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780226412139 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 022641213X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2016019383

OCLC

944087578

Author

Koga, Yukiko, 1969- author.

Title

Inheritance of loss : China, Japan, and the political economy of redemption after empire / Yukiko Koga.

Publisher

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-1462